The UK's national terrorism threat level has been reduced, the Home Secretary has announced.
It has been reduced from severe to substantial, Priti Patel said in a written statement to parliament.
The change means an attack is considered likely rather than highly likely.
The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) had classified the risk as severe following two terrorist attacks in quick succession, in October and November 2021.
On Wednesday, Patel said: "JTAC judges that, despite these two attacks, the current nature and scale of the UK terrorist threat is consistent with the level of threat seen prior to the attacks.
"The attacks in October and November 2021 reflect the complex, volatile, and unpredictable nature of the terrorist threat in the UK."
The country's terror threat level was increased to severe after the Liverpool hospital bombing in November.
Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died when his home made device, packed with ball bearings, exploded in a taxi outside the city’s Women’s Hospital last November.
The Iraqi born terrorist arrived in the UK on a Jordanian passport in April 2014 and claimed asylum six days later, insisting he was a Syrian refugee.
His claim was dismissed by the Home Office the following November.
An inquest in December heard Al Swealmeen had told his brother of his plan to do “something bad” before the hospital explosion on Remembrance Sunday.
The hearing was told he had booked a taxi from a flat in Sefton Park, Liverpool, where he had built his bomb, and told the driver, David Perry, “Women’s Hospital”.
As the taxi arrived outside the hospital’s front entrance, minutes before 11am on November 14, the bomb exploded.
The blast, captured on hospital CCTV, sent the front windscreen flying 16 metres before it smashed into a tree.
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Mr Perry, 45, said it felt as if a wagon had hit the back of his car. He blacked out but came round seconds later and managed to scramble from the blazing car.
He suffered three fractures to the bottom of his back and damaged eardrums, and told a security guard: “The b * d tried to bomb me.”
The inquest heard a Koran and prayer mat were found in Al Swealmeen’s belongings.
And the coroner Andre Rebello said: “It was fairly evident that he carried out the religious duties of someone who is a follower of Islam.”
In a narrative conclusion, Mr Rebello added: “This device could have only been manufactured with murderous intent. Fortunately there was only one victim.”
